Discovery Bay Dock Dropped Platinum Ring Recovery!!!
The Bay Area Ring Finders Brendon Chapman… Metal Detecting Service/Call ASAP 925-580-2590
I have been waiting for this collaboration for some time. A close friend of mine, Evan is an experienced scuba diver with experience working on dive boats and performing lost item recoveries in deep water. When I got the call for assistance from Sarah to recover a platinum men’s wedding band from 10′ of water, I originally turned down the opportunity. After thinking about options for providing direction to Sarah, I made contact with Evan for his thoughts. To my surprise he agreed to provide his services, along with my help, to give it a shot. I think Sarah was also surprised when I contacted her saying that I had a diver.
Everyone was excited and motivated to perform the search as soon as possible. We could not have asked for a better weather window with beautiful bluebird skies, a light delta breeze, and water conditions were not too awful either. It took some time to get set up at the private backyard dock in Discovery Bay. Our first search of the dark silty waters was not very productive in that we struggled to keep the diver over the target area, but a small stainless screw gave us all hope that it was possible to recover the platinum ring with the metal detector.
A second search was much more productive in the target area, but at a point Evan returned to the surface…the detector (a underwater rated machine) was water logged and quit working. Admittedly, Sarah and I were thinking that recovery was less likely now than ever. Evan however was not quitting the cause and returned to the 17 foot depth to perform a hand search. After several minutes he surfaced once more…We had made the recovery!!!
Evan had earlier noted a canvas boat cover in the general area under the dock. As a last ditch effort he searched the folds of this and low and behold, by nothing but feel, recovered the missing item. Sarah and I both shouted in celebration and the smile on Evans face bore nothing but pride.
Only moments earlier, a neighbor on a stand-up paddle board had cruised past and stated that she was praying for us! Was this coincidence or a little divine intervention…I’ll let you decide, but we were glad for the kind gesture.
Congratulations to Sarah and her family for getting the ring back and to our exquisite diver Evan who took on the murky dark waters of the delta and won! And, as an added bonus, no metal detectors were harmed in the making of this recovery (after drying out, it appears to be operational).
The Bay Area Ring Finders Brendon Chapman… Metal Detecting Service/Call ASAP 925-580-2590
